New Blog - first steps in link building?

[feelfreeto]

What are the first things I should do to start building backlinks?

I started a new blog recently, 100% white hat, high quality content (2000-4000 words articles). I did on-page SEO and all the stuff. Now I want to start building backlinks.

What's the best way to go about it in your opinion?

 

[The Clark Kent]

Great! After ensuring your Onpage and technical SEO you can start skyscraper to create some quality links initially. To run skyscraper you need some quality and resourceful good content in your site at first.

 

[Mia Jane]

First improve on-page optimization and build internal link structure and promote in social media and then slowly build back-links.

 

[feelfreeto]

First improve on-page optimization and build internal link structure and promote in social media and then slowly build back-links.

What's your advice to start building backlinks? Do comments/forums links still work? Or is it better to focus on guest posting?

 

[Mia Jane]

What's your advice to start building backlinks? Do comments/forums links still work? Or is it better to focus on guest posting?

Focus on guest posting and slowly improve back-links.

 

[liyong601c]

only find DR > 60 website to add backlink!

 

[feelfreeto]

only find DR > 60 website to add backlink!

I don't have that many DR60+ website in my niche. So I will have to go a bit lower.

 

[vedeus]

How old is your website?

 

[Elvlin]

Guest posting or asking other blog to reference your site, I not recommend using comment backlink.

 

[llarasati]

Try backlink shared by rachmaninoff first. Then if you have budget try guest post, niche edit or pbn.

 

[Mr Positive]

Guest posts is a great way to start

 

[Turbo SEO]

I suggest Guest post will be good

 

[feelfreeto]

How old is your website?

Fresh domain, December 2019.

Guest posting or asking other blog to reference your site, I not recommend using comment backlink.

Why not comments?
I am running an outreach campaign right now asking to link back to my site. But the best answer I get is paid backlinking from shitty (low DR) sites for $50 per link. Not even talking about any backlinks for free.

Try backlink shared by rachmaninoff first. Then if you have budget try guest post, niche edit or pbn.

Guest posts is a great way to start

I suggest Guest post will be good

Is it ok to guest post on a multi-niche websites or is it better to stick to the niche related websites only?

 

[Elvlin]

Fresh domain, December 2019.



Why not comments?
I am running an outreach campaign right now asking to link back to my site. But the best answer I get is paid backlinking from shitty (low DR) sites for $50 per link. Not even talking about any backlinks for free.








Is it ok to guest post on a multi-niche websites or is it better to stick to the niche related websites only?

Since backlink from comment is low quality, and mostly used with black hat method to spam

 

[SEOMet]

Fresh domain, December 2019.



Why not comments?
I am running an outreach campaign right now asking to link back to my site. But the best answer I get is paid backlinking from shitty (low DR) sites for $50 per link. Not even talking about any backlinks for free.








Is it ok to guest post on a multi-niche websites or is it better to stick to the niche related websites only?

If you reach out as a marketer trying to do business with other marketer, of course those "50$ per acceptable-to-decent backlink", are almost the best case scenario responses you can get.

You need to outreach to blog owners, as an expert on your field. Your content needs to be mindblowing, some of the best and best researched out there. This content would be actually really interesting and useful to the site owners and their audience, so they might want to link it for free. After all, if your post is a good resource, it's a win-win situation.

Apart from natural ones, 90% of the links that I build are like this. Never payed for a link.

Of course this depends on the niche. Mine can be oriented either towards purely informational, or to selling stuff. So there are plenty of high authority websites about this niche owned by people who dont even know what IM is, and are happy to simply link to a resource that they like.

If it's a hardcore money-niche, this might be difficult. Most webmasters will be aware of the backlink business and won't provide them for free. At that point you need to decide if it's worth it for you to go and pay for what they ask for.

You can always move a bit towards a parallel niche that is purely informative, and base your info content on that. Then collect backlinks to those posts and interlink to your money pages.

 

[feelfreeto]

If you reach out as a marketer trying to do business with other marketer, of course those "50$ per acceptable-to-decent backlink", are almost the best case scenario responses you can get.

You need to outreach to blog owners, as an expert on your field. Your content needs to be mindblowing, some of the best and best researched out there. This content would be actually really interesting and useful to the site owners and their audience, so they might want to link it for free. After all, if your post is a good resource, it's a win-win situation.

Apart from natural ones, 90% of the links that I build are like this. Never payed for a link.

Of course this depends on the niche. Mine can be oriented either towards purely informational, or to selling stuff. So there are plenty of high authority websites about this niche owned by people who dont even know what IM is, and are happy to simply link to a resource that they like.

If it's a hardcore money-niche, this might be difficult. Most webmasters will be aware of the backlink business and won't provide them for free. At that point you need to decide if it's worth it for you to go and pay for what they ask for.

You can always move a bit towards a parallel niche that is purely informative, and base your info content on that. Then collect backlinks to those posts and interlink to your money pages.

I totally understand that. Let's say the niche I am in is babies (not exactly, but it's a very similar to let you understand the audience). I created a couple of 100% informatinal posts, well researched with references, written by a professional (I outsource the content), longer than the top 10 results, plus with a custom created media content. I took the competing posts from top 100, then I took the websites that were linking to those 100 posts and gather contacts. And now I am reaching out to those websites.

The niche is far from the marketing, but the website owners do get a lot of backlinks requests. If I was a well established website with many posts and social media following, I guess I'd have a better response rate. But as I have only about 15 articles at this moment, I guess people don't take me serious yet. But all the articles and content is high quality, with niche images and well formatted.

What would you say the conversion rate I could expect from your experience?

 

[developer1989]

@feelfreeto What is the niche of your blog? Did you submit your blog to Google webmaster? If all your pages indexed?

 

[gdgtzz]

I just want to say that in ALL threads like this there are several comments saying "durr improve the site". That's obvious. Real examples are what's appreciated.

A tip you might not have thought about are press release directories. Some of them are free, but if you write one passable thing you can post it on a bunch of free directories. If the content is good, people WILL repost and backlink

 

[feelfreeto]

I just want to say that in ALL threads like this there are several comments saying "durr improve the site". That's obvious. Real examples are what's appreciated.

A tip you might not have thought about are press release directories. Some of them are free, but if you write one passable thing you can post it on a bunch of free directories. If the content is good, people WILL repost and backlink

I'm not going to share my blog here for obvious reasons.
Thanks for the advice regarding press release directories. Will consider it for sure.
Is it worth it to create web2.0 sites as well to post 1 blog post on each? There are hundreds of them.

@feelfreeto What is the niche of your blog? Did you submit your blog to Google webmaster? If all your pages indexed?

You can consider it as babies niche (stuff reviews, parenting advice, etc.).
GSC and indexing - yes to both.

 

[SEOMet]

I totally understand that. Let's say the niche I am in is babies (not exactly, but it's a very similar to let you understand the audience). I created a couple of 100% informatinal posts, well researched with references, written by a professional (I outsource the content), longer than the top 10 results, plus with a custom created media content. I took the competing posts from top 100, then I took the websites that were linking to those 100 posts and gather contacts. And now I am reaching out to those websites.

The niche is far from the marketing, but the website owners do get a lot of backlinks requests. If I was a well established website with many posts and social media following, I guess I'd have a better response rate. But as I have only about 15 articles at this moment, I guess people don't take me serious yet. But all the articles and content is high quality, with niche images and well formatted.

What would you say the conversion rate I could expect from your experience?

I follow a similar model than yours, and I think you're on the right track, but just like you, my success and earnings so far come mostly from authority content writing, a bit of social media, and just a bit of outreach non-paid link building (I also have a pretty darn good domain: I started this site like 8 years ago, and left it 'maturing' -better word than abandoned - with 3-4 nice posts, which ranked over the years).

I haven't focused enough on email outreach to tell you about statistics, or expected conversion rates for outreach emails. These rates are extremely dependant on so many factors, that it is difficult to make an estimation. I would say that if you get a free decent link from each 20-50 emails that you send, you would be doing pretty well.